Janette Sadik-Khan, New York’s Transportation Commissioner, has transformed the city’s streetscape—ostensibly a change that directly impacts every resident and visitor to New York. In less than three years, the New York City Department of Transportation has added hundreds of miles of bike lanes and dozens of pedestrian plazas. Most of these progressive initiatives have been met with a rare burst of residential approval.

The NYC Hoop’s formal geometry will make a new design statement on city sidewalks. The design of the bike rack—a cast-metal hoop with a crossbar—hints at its function by echoing the form of a bicycle wheel while being unobtrusive, thanks to its unusually small footprint.

Over 3,000 are Hoops will be installed in the next year, and with commuter cycling in New York up 66%, they will be needed, as the city’s informal DIY bike rack—the parking meter—is being replaced with electronic ‘pay and display‘ parking pay stations.